Xyrosaris

Xyrosaris is a genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae.[1][2]

Xyrosaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Yponomeutidae
Subfamily: Yponomeutinae
Genus: Xyrosaris
Meyrick, 1907
Type species
Xyrosaris dryopa
Meyrick, 1907
Species

See text

This genus is allied to Zelleria but distinct by the long antennae, peculiar palpi and scale-tufts of forewings.[3]

Species

  • Xyrosaris acroxutha - Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
  • Xyrosaris campsiptila - Meyrick, (from Sri Lanka)
  • Xyrosaris celastrella - Kearfott, 1903
  • Xyrosaris dryopa - Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)
  • Xyrosaris lichneuta - Meyrick, 1918 (China, Japan, Korea, Russia)
  • Xyrosaris lirinopa - Meyrick, 1922 (from China)
  • Xyrosaris maligna - Meyrick, 1907 (from India/Sri Lanka)
  • Xyrosaris melanopsamma - Meyrick, 1931 (from Japan)
  • Xyrosaris mnesicentra - Meyrick, 1913 (from British Guyana)
  • Xyrosaris obtorta - Meyrick, 1924
  • Xyrosaris ochroplagiata - Braun, 1918 (from N.America)
  • Xyrosaris secreta - Meyrick, 1912 (from South Africa)

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Xyrosaris". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  2. NCBI taxonomy database. ID: 263936. [accessed 15-09-2009]
  3. Meyrick, E. 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47-150: p.71


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